Fresh Start
Welcome to (school name)
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Fresh Start
Literacy Progamme
The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more you learn, the more places you will go.
- Dr Seuss
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What is Read Write Inc Fresh Start?
A rapid learn to read programme
So pupils can…
Read to learn for the rest of their lives
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Why Read Write Inc Fresh Start?
Tried and tested over many years
Systematic and structured
Success in reading
Training and ongoing staff development
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Who is it for?
Pupils in Y5 and upwards who need to ‘catchup’quickly
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How does it work?
Pupils:
Learn 44 sounds and matching letters
Learn to blend sounds to read words
Read lots of specially written texts
This is decoding
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How does it work?
Pupils:
Talk a lot about what they have read to show
they understand
Listen to and discuss ideas to deepen
understanding
This is comprehending
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How does it work?
Pupils:
Learn to spell words by saying the sounds
and writing the matching letter groups
Learn to build sentences orally using
adventurous vocabulary
Write simple and increasingly complex
sentences
Compose a range of texts using discussion
prompts
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Fresh Start Modules: reading and writing
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Reading and writing
Languages are made up of speech sounds
(phonemes)
Alphabets are used to record these sounds
(graphemes)
Sounds
All words are made up of sounds
In English there are 44
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Graphemes
A grapheme is a sound written down
English has more than 150 graphemes
The most complex alphabetic code in the
world!
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Chart
This chart shows the most usual graphemes
for the 44 sounds
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Pupils learn a simple code first
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Copyright Ruth Miskin Training
If English had a simple code
spelling and reading would be much easier!
play mayk trayn cafay strayt wayt brayk
green dreem kee hee happee
light kight fligh Igh igh tigh
blow smowk flowt gow mowst
moon broot bloo groo
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c-a-t
ch-a-t
l-igh-t
c-r-a-sh
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How can you help?
By...
using pure sounds
knowing the graphemes
understanding how ‘Fred’/ Sound Talk helps
with reading and spelling
Consonants: stretchy
f
l
m
n
r
s
v
z
sh
th
ng
nk
Consonants: bouncy
b
c
k
d
g
h
j
p qu t
Vowels: bouncy
a
e
oo
oo
w
x
y ch
igh
ow
ou
oy
Vowels: stretchy
i
o
ar
Set 1 sounds
u
or
ay
air
ee
ir
Set 2 sounds
Set 2
Set 3
f
l
m
n
r
s
v
z
sh
ff
ph
ll
le
mm
mb
nn
kn
rr
wr
ss
se
c
ce
ve
zz
s
ti
ci
b
c
k
d
g
j
p
bb
ck
ch
dd
gg
g
ge
dge
pp
a
e
h
i
o
u
ea
oo
u_e
ue
ew
oo
ar
qu
t
w
tt
wh
th
x
ng
nk
y
ch
tch
ay
ee
igh
ow
a_e
ai
y
ea
e
i_e
ie
i
o_e
oa
o
or
air
ir
ou
oy
oor
ore
aw
au
are
ur
er
ow
oi
ire
ear
ure
Sound talk...
Helps pupils learn to read
Sound talk means only talking in sounds...
(e.g. Fred can only say c_a_t, he can’t say
cat)
We call this Fred Talk/Sound talk
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Fred...
If we understand Fred/Sound talk
we can blend orally
Blending is needed for reading
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Fred...
Fred helps pupils learn to spell as well!
Pupils convert words into sounds
They press the sounds they hear on to their
fingers...
We call this Fred/Sound Fingers
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So how can you help your son/daughter?
By knowing the 44 pure sounds
By knowing how to blend using Fred Talk for reading
m_a_t
By knowing how to use Fred Fingers for spelling
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And...
By reading to your son/daughter e.g. stories /
extracts from newspaper
Asking lots of questions/sharing opinions!
Use these prompts to help you:
What do you think
happens next?
What is that
character
thinking?
What is happening?
What do you
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What is the
character
saying?
think that character is
feeling now?
And...
By talking to your son/daughter as much as possible
and ‘feeding’ them new and different words – have fun!
“Let’s eat our lunch now.”
“Let’s munch our lunch now.”
“Let’s scoff our lunch now.”
“Let’s devour our lunch now!”
I’m not just...(happy that England won) I’m....(ecstatic)!
You’re looking ...not just...but...
And...
By enriching conversations through description:
“Look at that rain. It looks like diamonds sparkling on the
window pane!”
By having fun with words and language.
“I’m as hot as a spud in a cooking pot!”
By praising your child for using new words or interesting
images
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And...
By having a look at the parents’ pages on the web for tips
and resources for supporting your child at home:
www.oup.com
(RWI resources are published by Oxford University Press)
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Thank you...
Happy
reading!
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Appendices
Optional slides – see notes
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At this school the Read Write Inc. Fresh
Start programme is managed by:
Mr/Mrs ???????
Why synthetic phonics?
“Synthetic phonics offers the vast majority of
young children the best and most direct route
to becoming skilled readers and writers” Sir
Jim Rose
Rose Review of Reading 2006
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